This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Well, don't I have egg on my face. After writing an article yesterday wherein I pointed out that Windows 11 is "currently in a reasonable state", it appears the OS now has something of a stacked bug ...

As hardware gets more powerful, it mainly enables two things: better graphics and better performance. The performance side is easy to understand – games will load faster, have higher frame rates, and ...

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